BitWrangler wrote on Today, 12:54:

I am curious as to why that is a long shot, sounds easy so far. Was the motherboard an oddity or the case hard to identify and find?

It's a few things actually. Can't remember the case model and have no photos of it. The AT standard is a pain nowadays because of prices (socket 7 systems are priced twice as much as slot 1 in my neck of the woods), bound-to-fail PSUs, and don't get me started on DIN-plug keyboards and COM mice!

revolstar wrote on Today, 13:40:

BitWrangler wrote on Today, 12:54:

I am curious as to why that is a long shot, sounds easy so far. Was the motherboard an oddity or the case hard to identify and find?

It's a few things actually. Can't remember the case model and have no photos of it. The AT standard is a pain nowadays because of prices (socket 7 systems are priced twice as much as slot 1 in my neck of the woods), bound-to-fail PSUs, and don't get me started on DIN-plug keyboards and COM mice!

Even AWE32/AWE64 cards seem horrendously expensive. I'm not sure I'll even be able to get one.

RetroLizard wrote on Today, 13:47:

revolstar wrote on Today, 13:40:

BitWrangler wrote on Today, 12:54:

I am curious as to why that is a long shot, sounds easy so far. Was the motherboard an oddity or the case hard to identify and find?

It's a few things actually. Can't remember the case model and have no photos of it. The AT standard is a pain nowadays because of prices (socket 7 systems are priced twice as much as slot 1 in my neck of the woods), bound-to-fail PSUs, and don't get me started on DIN-plug keyboards and COM mice!

Even AWE32/AWE64 cards seem horrendously expensive. I'm not sure I'll even be able to get one.

Use saved searches if you are not already on Evil Bay, cheap ones do pop up from time to time. I know when I want an AWE64 Gold it took me several months of hits to get one at a price I could live with buying. Took even longer to get a 32Mb memory module for it at a reasonable price.

I will say I didnt actually use it much, I just didn't like CQM that much and preferred OPL3 over it so ended up using a good old Yammy card with OPL and a Roland Midi DB instead.

What I really should have done was get a AWE32 CT3900 with OPL, would have had likely the best setup with such a card but every 3900 I have seen has stupid pricing and will sit on EvilBay for months on end with that stupid pricing.

RetroLizard wrote on Today, 13:47:

revolstar wrote on Today, 13:40:

BitWrangler wrote on Today, 12:54:

I am curious as to why that is a long shot, sounds easy so far. Was the motherboard an oddity or the case hard to identify and find?

It's a few things actually. Can't remember the case model and have no photos of it. The AT standard is a pain nowadays because of prices (socket 7 systems are priced twice as much as slot 1 in my neck of the woods), bound-to-fail PSUs, and don't get me started on DIN-plug keyboards and COM mice!

Even AWE32/AWE64 cards seem horrendously expensive. I'm not sure I'll even be able to get one.

I was lucky that I found my Awe 32 in a computer i picked up from a scrapper and my awe 64 was in a 5 dollar computer i found at the thrift store, but it doesnt work properly and i havent had too much time to troubleshoot it .

RetroLizard wrote on Today, 13:47:

Even AWE32/AWE64 cards seem horrendously expensive. I'm not sure I'll even be able to get one.

Seems to depend on the model. AWE64 Gold cards tend to have insane list prices.

Whereas AWE64 Value or SB32 CT3670 (same chip as AWE64) tend to be more reasonable.

If reminiscing about the "good old days" counts as retro activity:

Who remembers these? Oh man there was always this one guy who had one at the lanparty's i frequented back then. Was so jealous to look at the tiny display showing -15°C (yes minus 15)

Asetek Vapochill

Followed closely by people rocking this beauty on top of their case

Koolance Exos

I only got into watercooling at the start of S775 era ... was rocking aircooling on my S939 while a select few fellow clan members were using custom w/c with the well known koolance water blocks on S478 with a custom setup.

There is still one of these (triple fan) available new in holland ... if you are looking to burn €950 on it 😮
https://www.highflow.nl/watercooling/watercoo … k-ex2-1055.html

Thats cool and I would have been envious of that as well.